Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, W.W. Norton, 368 pages, $31.99
The U.S. government owns a share of what happened to Gaza. Through two administrations, Washington provided much of the money, weapons, and intelligence required to reconquer the Palestinian enclave, and U.S. troops were eventually deployed only a step removed from the front lines. Now the Trump administration has put its full diplomatic weight behind a "Board of Peace" aimed at reshaping Gaza forever, hoping to turn that board into a model for all global diplomacy.
